Published: 17 March 2015 г.
On March 12-13, 2015, USAID Collaborative Governance Program (CGP), through its partner Civic Participation Fund (CPF), organized the 3rd Workshop on Successful Grant Proposal Writing for 19 representatives of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Bishkek.
The participants of the workshop, representing CSOs working in diverse areas with different backgrounds and experience, joined the workshop with one objective -to improve their capacity in drafting successful grant proposals, learn USAID CGP, U.S. Embassy Democracy Commission Program, and other donors’ requirements for grants application. The workshop was very intensive and dynamic but thanks to professionalism of the trainers from the Civic Participation Fund, Aida Kurbanova and Cholpon Akmatova, the participants were active during the two-day training with wide variety of aspects covered including baseline survey to define the participants’ knowledge and experience in this area, project lifecycle with six integral components, project log frame with seven steps vs lifecycle, project identification with needs and risks assessment, defining target groups, stakeholders and beneficiaries, problem formulation and analysis, considering a problem tree with examples from practice, project planning, budget planning, implementation plan, results, impact results, monitoring and evaluation, indicators, and reporting. Friendly working environment created during the workshop helped every participant obtain knowledge and learn secrets of successful grant proposal writing. During the workshop, every participant had a chance to share their findings and experience and ask questions and clarify unclear aspects.
USAID CGP provided the 3
rd Workshop on Successful Grant Proposal Writing and intends in the future to provide several more workshops, seminars, and trainings on advocacy, financial management and the legal regulatory environment for those CSOs, which have been profiled by the CGP and completed a voluntary assessment/diagnostics to assess their organizational and human capacity's strengthens and weaknesses as a precondition for applying to the CGPs grants program. For more information on how CSO's can participate in these CGP activities, please go to:
http://cso-kg.org/ . CGP is committed to working with CSOs that demonstrate their commitment to investing in their own organization's future development.
USAID CGP hopes that these workshops will considerably improve the quality of CSOs’ grant applications and make them competitive while applying for a grant support.